Many ECDL Training and Test Centres are now offering courses in ECDL Advanced. The reputation which these centres have built up and the high standards which have become their mark, are applied with the same enthusiasm to the ECDL Advanced programme as to core level ECDL. Many of these centres have trainers who have completed the Certified Training Professional programme, evidence of their professionalism and expertise.

As with the core level ECDL, there is a variety of training options open to ECDL Advanced candidates. Instructor-led training as indicated above, is available at many training centres. Some of these courses will utilise a text-book from the range of ECDL Foundation approved courseware.

Other options include the multimedia approach, where a student manages their own training using ECDL Foundation approved CD Rom courseware.

ECDL Courseware
The ECDL is vendor-neutral certification programme, and therefore a candidate can use any computer platform and corresponding software applications, so long as they have the functionality to cover the tasks on the syllabus.

There are a number of approved courseware providers who produce materials for teaching and learning the knowledge and skills prescribed in the ECDL syllabus.

A listing of these approved courseware providers can be found on the ECDL Foundation’s website www.ecdl.com

Training centres and trainers are at liberty to develop their own training materials, but they must ensure that all syllabus items are covered.